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Tag: parasitic plants

Close Encounters

A parasitic plant can cause an invasive plant’s allies to switch sides

Scaldweed, Cuscuta grovonii, can prevent an invasive plant from using soil microbes to help invade territory – and the parasite can even become more vicious by using those same microbes against its invasive host.

by Alun SaltJanuary 13, 2023January 13, 2023
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Close Encounters

Vampire plant reduces fungi’s ability to decompose leaf litter

Parasitic plants draw life from their hosts, but now it seems that even after death, some plants have a baleful influence.

by Alun SaltOctober 7, 2022October 7, 2022
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Taxonomy & Evolution Videoblog

Parasitic plants and other botanical “misfits”

Taking a look inside these botanical rebels offers new information to better understand them.

by Luiza Teixeira-CostaMay 3, 2021May 7, 2021
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Close Encounters Growth & Development

Even in juvenile stages, mistletoe can adjust its physiology according to its host

Impact on the tree varied depending on whether it was deciduous or evergreen

by Erin ZimmermanNovember 3, 2020
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News in Brief Physiologia Plantarum

The parasitic plant Cuscuta sets up barriers to some minerals when infecting a host

If the parasitic plant dodder taps its host with a straw, then it’s a specialised straw than can filter out some nutrients that the plant isn’t using.

by Dale MayleaOctober 17, 2019October 16, 2019
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Epirixanthes
Annals of Botany Featured News in Focus

When a plant loses photosynthesis, what else does it lose?

One of the common features of plants they make their own food. But what happens inside a plant when they stop making their food and eat something else?

by Alun SaltJuly 31, 2019July 29, 2019
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AoB PLANTS

Host specificity in parasitic plants – perspectives from mistletoes

by AoBPLANTSFebruary 27, 2017February 27, 2017
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Complexities of orchid seedling establishment
Annals of Botany

Complexities of orchid seedling establishment (Viewpoint)

A better understanding of germination and seedling establishment is needed for the conservation of vulnerable or threatened orchid populations.

by botanyoneSeptember 2, 2015September 1, 2015
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Image: http://www.flagstaffotos.com.au/ (Creative Commons Attribution).
Plant Cuttings

The positives of parasitic plants(!)

Parasitic plants tend to get a bad press. Unfairly?

by Nigel ChaffeyMay 23, 2013July 22, 2013
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Rate heterogeneity of holoparasitic Balanophora
Annals of Botany

Rate heterogeneity of holoparasitic Balanophora

by botanyoneNovember 26, 2012October 25, 2012
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    Excellent study. An additional flooding treatment could have revealed little more about this above-below ground trait relationship.

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    The bisindole alkaloid catharine is said to have been published and the molecular structure can be found scattered about, though…

  5. Nigel Chaffey on The geek’s guide to weird and wonderful plantsJanuary 17, 2023

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